Encuentros culturales a partir de los consumos desde una perspectiva decolonial

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to explore features of encounters between the Kichwa indigenous culture from the Vencedores community located in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and the western culture, based on cultural consumptions. For the development of the study, the decolonial perspective and methodology was considered with the objective of reconfiguring knowledge from the voice of the subject with whom we study. This allowed to carry out a field work in which the open interview and the participatory observation were used, with which it was identified that in the meetings between cultures, exchanges are generated and can modify certain meanings in their consumptions and practices, but do not generate a total homogenization . The ancestral practices and knowledge represent their culture, which they recognize and mantain despite constant encounters with Hispanics